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[-Skorpious-]

First of all I would like to apoligize for the horrible pun (couldn't help myself).

Anyways, I am referring to a recent Kotaku interview with EA's very own Frank Gibeau who claims EA Won't be making stand-alone single player games anymore. Now I understand that Bioware and EA are technically separate studio's with separate development teams, but EA are still the ones who fund Bioware's current and future titles - if EA wants MP they will get MP.

Take Dead Space for example. The survival horror title was a surprise hit for me when I played it last year (nothing special, but still way above my expectations). Now EA, with a newfound hard-on for MP, decides Dead Space 2 will be all the better with some form of MP. MP isn't necessarily a bad thing, but when is starts to negatively impact the single-player aspect of the game (made evident by recent releases such as BIoshock 2, Resident Evil 5, and Singularity) then why should such a feature be included? Does EA honestly think the tacked on MP of an outer-space survival horror game will attract fans of CoD, Halo, or Battlefield (especially when the game is promoted as a single player game above a MP one)?

Now getting to the point - will EA's new decision harm the future of Bioware's games? I posted this specifically in the ME forums since Bioware has already made clear their intention to make a MP game, so I figured if any of Bioware's titles are going MP ME would be the most likely suspect. However, I do not condemn of Bioware's MP game. As far as I know, it isn't ME3, and it doesn't involve Commander Shepard. Thats fine. But what does worry me is the direction the ME series will take after the reapers have been defeated and Shepard's story comes to an end. Will we see full-blown MP oriented games? More RPG/shooter hybrids? An RTS?

I don't want to see Bioware go the route of creating strictly MP titles. In an industry where MP is starting to rank more important to developers than the single-player aspect of a game, this news does scare me a little.

Modifié par -Skorpious-, 08 décembre 2010 - 05:26 .

[Stanley Woo]

Since this discussion is about EA and BioWare in general and not specifically Mass Effect related, I'm shutting it down. please take your discussion tot he Off-topic forum.



Also, it would behoove some of you to actually read the article before passing judgement on what you think Frank Gibeau said. thank you.



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